This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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AMIGA
Message #4640
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BattleChess
Message #4639
I am interested to know if anyone knows how to go about connecting and playing Battlechess over the modem Can this be done between an Amiga and an IBM, and if so, how? Thanks
Don, I forgot to mention that both files are named LOGO.ARC so do a BRO *LOGO, it's the second file. Make sure you have ARC as well, if you don't it's in LIB 4 of AmigaTech as ARC.EXE and the help file is there also in LIB 1 (ARC.HLP). Let…
Tim, see my reply to you in AmigaArts, you're getting the error msg most probably because the file is ARCed. Marlene
Colin, The problem with the Abacus books is that they are all written for the assembler they sell–Assempro??? Anyway, it is not a very good assembler, I am told. But they do have the examples – and about a dozen of those books. The books are translated from German, and…
Colin, Every program seems to insist that I add a library or a handler or put a file or two in the C directory. After a while, the WB is just too full to hold any more. Especially the 1.3 WB. And with 1.4, more of the WB will come…
Charlie, Dallas is not exactly a poorhouse community. We did a poll at our last club meeting, and of the 150 plus people there, only about 10 or 12 had hard disks. Betty
Colin, they aren't cheap to put on a 1000. I see prices in the 600-800 dollar range as being the minimum, by the time you get everything needed. That is a VERY sizable amount of money for most people. It isn't even that cheap for a 2000, by the time…
I think what is happening is: The Amiga is going to be for the very well off only. If we can't afford hard disks and memory expansion, we can't use much of the software for the machine. Now, getting a hard disk is not impossible for me – I will…
Thanks, Steve. I think I shall seek their assistance. Betty
Betty: Of course if ARP were supported by more developers then you would be able to get more stuff on a single workbench disk. Actually Arexx can help a little there too. Ie. you can use Arexx scripts to take care of complex problems associated with assignments, needed disks etc.…
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Message #4617
Hi! I'm new to this service and would like to make use of your valuable libraries but I find I am unable to download a file properly using ONLINE!. When I try to use a file afterwards all I get is an error message. Thanks for the help-
#Logo
Message #4616
Marlene-Thanks for the info. I'm new here and a bit intimidated by it all, but I shall see about downloading Unix Logo and seeing what it is. Regards, Don Reinfeld
Betty, You wouldn't be reading messages here at all if it weren't for hard drives! (Compu$erve's). Think about it. Lloyd
I have alleviated much of my trouble by using my 5 1/4" drive for a Workbench. It holds all the libs:, l:, and devs: directories – complete with all the support programs for everything I use very much. And my c: directory goes into ram. This makes the system quite…
Bill, Many people are doing fine with hard drives on the 1000. But I love that 2meg memory card on the side of mine. I proved that the SideCar would work on the other side of that box, but hard disks so often do not – I really hate to…
Ron, I haven't tried that assembler with 1.3 – but it seems unlikely that there would be a problem. Betty
OK, Ron. I'll put that on my list of things to send up. May take a day or three. If I should forget, may I count on you to remind me? Betty
Ron, Believe me – there are other things in life besides hard disks. Besides, they seem to give people more misery than pleasure. You've read this message base! More complaints about hard disks than about anything else. 😉 Betty (I'm VERY good at rationalizing.)
Don, we have both Gerald Owens LOGO and version 4 of Unix LOGO in AmigaTech LIB 12. I don't know anything about commercial products (sorry). Marlene
While it's certainly true that the Amiga sings when you add RAM and a hard-disk, the majority of A500 owners will never expand beyond 512K or maybe 1 Meg and 2 floppies. Even among A2000 owners there are a lot of systems without hard disk or memory expansion beyond 1…
As far as the Assembler is concerned, I can heartily recommend Charlie Gibb's A68K, a PD assembler. It is really slick. There is a book from Abacus, called something like The Amiga Programmer's Guide, that is written with all assembly language examples. — Colin —
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#Software
Message #4594
Why would you have to stop buying software if you don't have a HD? Do you have to put everything on the WB disk? — Colin —
You say that you would hate to see the Amiga become unusable to someone who doesn't have a harddrive- unfortunately a machine of this design (multi-tasking, graphic etc..) SHOULD HAVE come with a minimum of 1 or 2 megabytes and a harddrive! I know that some people are going to…
Betty, I can understand your problem with the workbench disk vs libraries, but there are advantages to having a library. For one thing, programs that use it will be smaller and therefore save you space. My old file requester was 12k. If you had 3 programs on your disk that…
Yes — Brian Macguire and Joe Lowery.
Yeah, Steve, but I'm pushing for Dallas. Say, do we have any AmiEXPO representatives who frequent this forum? Betty
logo
Message #4579
I'm looking for a full implementation of Logo for the Amiga. Can anyone point me to such? (I have Gerald Owens' 1986 PD Alogo which implements Apple II graphics features but no trig functions, for example.) I recently learned of a version published by The Learning Corporation and offered for…
I haven't seen 5.0 yet, but I do understand that there are a few bugs, and that the interim patches fix them but introduce another. Lattice has always been slower to compile and link than Manx. In the old versions of Lattice (3.03, etc.), I didn't consider this a serious…
As I said, an upload would be nice. Do you have to fix anything for it to work under 1.3? Ron
Put it this way – if you have a pd package that can provide a 'reasonably' complete assembler setup in one arc file – PLEASE UPLOAD IT! I strongly suspect someone might use it. Maybe even I'd try assembler again (I even have a couple of manuals to play with).…
So, get a full size box and add a hd (grin)! Ron
Betty: Though most of my work now-a-days is on an Amy 2K, I am not about to give up my A1K! Jay Miner spoke at the SDAUG last night (and was well received as usual). He mentioned that he thought that the A1K keyboard was on of their most serious…
Betty: The problem has not really become close to that point (mainly due to the outstanding design of the Amiga OS). If you have two or more floppies then the solutions are simple. You put some of the 'overflow' directories on another disk and make the appropriate 'assigns.' Of course…
Betty, You 'n me, both! (archaic, ain't we!) –Gabe
IRQ VIRUS UTILS
Message #4552
OK, Stan. I merged the one in Arts LIb10, and will do this the next time I sign on – if someone hasn't already done it. Let me add here, as I did in Arts, that people might want to get SysCHk.ARC from Tech, Lib14 to use in conjunction with…
Ron, To the best of my knowledge, there is not a complete set of PD include files. Bryce's SmallLib is the best so far as I know. It is definitely not for 1.3, either, since he now works for Commodore and he did these over a year ago. Betty
#New and desperate!
Message #4549
Ron, I have exactly such a package. It is an assembler disk put together by Jim Butterfield. It has Bryce Nesbitt's SmallLib, a debugger that is pd, and one of the PD Assemblers – Wesley Howe's, I believe, plus some sample code and a few other utilities. It works quite…
#Software
Message #4547
Ron, Most of my software is pd, with a bit of shareware, and only a few commercial packages. But even with pd stuff – everyone seems to have extras for the WB. However, there were a number of things to add to Workbench for AREXX, more for ConMan, and it…
Bob, I called just now to ask. They tell me that they have it in the office, it is printed up and ready, and they should be shipping it out next week. I agree with you – they should bring AmiEXPO to Dallas. This is a high-tech area, a travel…
I'm comparing it Aztec 3.6. It's theorethically much more powerful. But, it's slower in compile and link and buggy. Maybe the 5.01 update will help.
I'd go for Denver!
Looks like we'll have perfectly working multiserial support.
So would I, Charlie. I really want the expandability, but I've been happy with my 1000 so far. When I decided not to trade up last year, I was afraid I would regret it later, but I haven't. Now, of course, I want a hard disk badly, so a 2000…
New IRQ Virus
Message #4517
I just uploaded to DL4 a file called "IRQKill.ARC". It contains programs which will deal with the new and VERY NASTY! IRQ VIRUS. THis virus attaches itself to executable programs, and is NOT IN THE BOOT BLOCK. This is definitely a MUST GET FOR EVERYONE! The arcfile is less than…
Mark, I was not referring to the official files, but to other 'collections' of pd files which would be a good matchup. Ron
#New and desperate!
Message #4508
The Commodore Include files for Assembler and C are copywrited and cannot be uploaded. A copy of the 1.3 include files can be ordered from Commodore. The cost is $20.00 for a four disk set which has the include files as well as other programming information.
I'd be real interested in knowing just what problems you've been having with Lattice v. 5.0. I used 3.03 for a while and found it useless, but 4.0 has done what I've needed it to (though my demands aren't to severe). I'm upgrading to 5.0 RSN (check arrived in todays…
Betty They should drop Chicago, and go with Dallas, Devner or Atlanta. Do you have any news on when SuperPlan will be out? Bob Naffziger (Vivid Copy)
Altruism or competitiveness? Let's call it "enlightened self interest" — Art
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